From: John Villalovos <jvillalo@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: John Villalovos <john.l.villalovos@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
prarit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1 V2] x86, apic: Make "broken BIOS!!" messages unique
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:33:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D506525.8020605@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D506363.4030707@zytor.com>
On 02/07/2011 04:25 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/07/2011 05:58 AM, John Villalovos wrote:
>> The 'inconceivable' messages are because it should not be possible to reach
>> those code paths.
>>
> More standard terminology would be "invalid" or "impossible".
> "Inconceivable" sounds like a combination of legal values which just
> don't make sense.
To be honest I used it in homage to The Princess Bride movie. And
frankly it is 'inconcievable' that code will ever be called :)
John
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-07 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-07 13:58 [PATCH 1/1 V2] x86, apic: Make "broken BIOS!!" messages unique John Villalovos
2011-02-07 21:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-07 21:33 ` John Villalovos [this message]
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